Job summary
Employer heading
IIRMS Clinical Lead Principal Psychologist
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Do you thrive on team work, providing collaborative complex formulations and guiding clinical work through a relational approach?
The Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) Pathway is a jointly commissioned initiative by NHS England and His Majesty’s Prison and Probation Service, that aims to provide a pathway of psychologically informed services for a highly complex and challenging offender group who are likely to have severe personality difficulties and who pose a high risk of harm or a high risk of reoffending in a harmful way.
Sussex Chiron Intensive Intervention & Risk Management Service (IIRMS) works directly with the most complex and high risk individuals, supporting their release into the community from prison. You will lead this county-wide, dynamic service, providing professional and clinical leadership to a dedicated and skilled multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team. The service provides individual psychologically-informed support to men and women before they are released from prison and for up to 18 months post-release.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your experience of working in partnership with another organisation. As well as overseeing the work of assistant psychologists, an occupational therapist, a mental health specialist practitioner and Probation Service colleagues, you will also work closely and collaboratively with regional senior probation officers, and KSS provider collaborative colleagues in similar posts.
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Main duties of the job
· To clinically lead the Sussex Chiron Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service and support the operational and strategic aims of the service
· To work as a member of the Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service, providing a high quality, specialist applied psychology service to clients, their families or carers, where there are highly complex presentations. · In addition to be responsible for the supervision and governance of the staff team, which consists of SPFT employees and Probation employees · To support and develop psychological practice within the team through consultation, supervision, formulation and training.
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Working for our organisation
The Sussex Intensive Intervention Risk Management Service are a small, cohesive team consisting of SPFT and Probation staff working together to deliver an effective and impactful service which supports those individuals who are complex and present as high risk of harm. This is a challenging yet rewarding service to work in and will give you a unique experience of joint delivery of a specially commissioned service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role is being offered as 0.6 FTE.
You will be an applied psychologist with a core professional qualification recognised by the HCPC, and significant experience of working at a Senior Practitioner Psychologist level or similar, preferably in a service working with people with offending histories and / or high risk / challenging behaviours and presentations and complex personality challenges. We welcome applications from psychologists with experience of working in HMPPS as well as (forensic) mental health services. As this is a fixed term position, you will require a good understanding of the criminal justice system and theoretical models underpinning OPD including attachment theory, the Good Lives Model and desistance theory.
You will be able to demonstrate excellent consultation, communication and collaboration skills, and a successful / effective approach when working with a range of stakeholders / agencies within Health and Criminal Justice contexts. You will also be able to demonstrate experience in leadership roles, and will be an effective teacher, trainer and supervisor to the staff you lead and support.
See Attached JD and PS for full details of role
For further information about this role or to arrange an informal visit, please contact:
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate doctoral level training in applied psychology [or its equivalent for those trained before 1996 or outside the UK*] as approved by the HPC, including specifically models of psychopathology, clinical psychometrics, two or more distinct psychological therapies and lifespan developmental psychology
- Professionally registered as a Practitioner Psychologist with the Health Professions Council (HPC)
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant assessed experience of working as a qualified psychologist.
- Experience of working with a wide variety of client groups, across the whole life course and presenting with the full range of clinical severity across the full range of care settings including outpatient, community, primary care, in-patient and residential care settings severity including maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse and the threat of physical abuse
- Experience of exercising full clinical responsibility for clients’ psychological care and treatment, both as a professionally qualified care coordinator and also within the context of a multidisciplinary care plan
- Doctoral level knowledge of research design and methodology
- Knowledge of legislation in relation to the client group
- Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice of specialised psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups.
- Knowledge of the theory and practice of highly specialised psychological therapies and assessment methodologies
- Evidence of continuing professional development as required by the HPC.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Abigail Fenton
- Job title
- Consultant Forensic Psychologist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 493 693
- Additional information
Rebecca Hankins
Service Manager Sussex and Surrey OPD Pathways
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